Raven Talk, qawqs: Poet Ann Spiers with Sharon Hashimoto

Saturday, January 15, 2022
2:00 PM 3:00 PM 14:00 15:00

Raven Chronicles Press 15528 12th Avenue Northeast Shoreline, WA, 98155 United States (map)

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Thank you for joining us for Raven Talk, Raven’s online podcast.

We are hosting monthly conversations with writers, artists, cultural warriors. Today poet Ann Spiers is talking to Sharon Hashimoto about her recently published book, MORE AMERICAN, winner of the 2021 Off The Grid Poetry Prize

Ann Spiers lives on Vashon Island, the traditional land of the sxʷəbabš (Sxwobabc) indigenous people. She was its first poet laureate and stewards its Poetry Post. Ann’s poems appear widely in journals, anthologies, and on-line. Her 2021 publications are Rain Violent (Empty Bowl), Back Cut (Black Heron). In 2022, Ravenna Press publishes Harpoon in its chapbook Triple Series. She was included in Empty Bowl’s women’s anthology Keep a Green Bough: Voices from the Heart of Cascadia, The Madrona Project #2.

Sharon Hashimoto's first book of poetry, The Crane Wife (co-winner of the 2003 Nicholas Roerich Prize and published by Story Line Press), has recently been reprinted by Red Hen Press. Her work has appeared in American Fiction, The American Scholar, Barrow Street, Louisiana Literature, North American Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, River Styx, Shenandoah, and other literary publications. She is a recipient of a N.E.A. fellowship in poetry. Recently retired from Highline College after twenty-nine years of teaching, she writes poetry, short stories, and is currently at work on a novel.